BOOKS

Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia, The Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods, by Margo Taft Stever and James Taft Stever, Orange Frazier Press (published through a collaboration between Zhejiang University Press and University and the University of Cincinnati) 2015.

Imperiled Landscapes, Endangered Legends , Universe Publishing, Division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., and the Portland Museum of Portland, Maine, 1997. Edited a collection of
photographs of endangered landscapes taken from horseback by Lynn Butler and poems about horses and the environment.

Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 Mission to Asia, the Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods, Museum Catalogue by Margo T. Stever and James T. Stever, 2007.

“Wind Innuendo,” A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women of the Hudson Valley, edited by Laurence Carr & Jan Zlotnik Schmidt, Cod Hill Press, 2013, 2014 Best Book Award in the Anthology (Fiction) Category, Sponsored by USA Book News, 2014 da Vinci Eye Award for book cover artwork of Eric Hoffer Book Awards, Finalist in the 2014 Beverly Hills International Book Awards for anthology, Finalist in the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the category of Women’s Issues, and Finalist in 2014 International Book Awards in the category of Chick Lit/Women’s Literature;

Public lecture with Professor Hong Shen of Zhejiang University on William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia, The Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods, February 13, 2014, 10:00 to 12:00, Bauer Room, Sponsored by the University of Cincinnati Libraries.

Beyond Baroque, Venice, California, 2013. Taught adult workshop on how to publish a book of poems.

With Xuemo Wang, Dean, UC Libraries, and Professor Hong Shen, Zhejiang University, presented lecture and reading from Looking East at University of Cincinnati, Langsam Library, June 25, 2015.

Public lecture with Professor Hong Shen of Zhejiang University on William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia, The Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods, February 13, 2014, 10:00 to 12:00, Bauer Room, Sponsored by the University of Cincinnati Libraries.

Beyond Baroque, Venice, California, 2013. Taught adult workshop on how to publish a book of poems.

Submitted paper, “Looking East: William Howard Taft and the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia,” Ohio River Valley Chapter of the Victorian Society in America, Covington, Kentucky, Spring, 2010.

Submitted paper and power point presentation on 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia and photographs of Harry Fowler Woods at 2008 Hangzhou International Symposium on Sinology and Sino-Foreign Relations and Exchanges, Hangzhou, China.

ARTISTIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Board Member, Teatown Advisory Board, Teatown Lake Reservation. Assist in the development of “Writing Nature Series,” in collaboration with The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, to bring the best nature writers to Westchester audiences to discuss urgent environmental issues.

1990-Present

Founding Editor, Slapering Hol Press, Sleepy Hollow, New York. Designed and developed Slapering Hol Press, the small press imprint of The Hudson
Valley Writers’ Center (www.writerscenter.org). Co-edit and publish the annual poetry chapbook winner of the Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest, the Conversation series consisting of a well known poet who chooses and appears in the same chapbook with an emerging poet, poetry anthologies, and special collections.

2004

Director, exhibition, Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905Mission to Asia, the Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods
( www.ohiohistory.org/tafttrip). Developed exhibition team, selected photographs for exhibition,
research and writing text for exhibition, fundraising, writing of museum catalogue, and developing traveling exhibit. Opening in 2007 at William Howard
Taft National Historic Site, and traveling exhibitions followed at The Nippon Club Gallery, New York, the Old Forge Arts Center, Old Forge, New York;
and 2008 Hangzhou International Symposium on Sinology and Sino-Foreign Relations and Exchanges at Zhejiang University. In 2006 awarded President’s
Volunteer Service Award from the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.

Chairperson, Board of Directors, founder and member of Board of Directors, The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Inc. (HVWC), Sleepy Hollow, New York.
[Also, served as executive director from 1989 to 1995 until the first paid, full-time executive director was hired.] General oversight of
administration of the organization; principal fundraiser for capital and large operating grants; prepared grant applications and administered major
grants; artistic director on several projects. Functions included final approval of the programmatic content of the poetry and fiction reading series
and oversight of the thematic choices for writers’ workshops held at the Writers’ Center. While in dual roles as Chairperson and executive director,
founded and administered original reading series and workshop series; began outreach programs; conceived and raised primary seed money for acquisition
and restoration of the Philipse Manor Railroad Station for adaptive re-use as the HVWC’s headquarters.

1996-2000

Project Director, Comprehensive Literacy Project, Coachman Family Center. Organized, funded, staffed, and worked as tutor for joint Westhab and HVWC
literacy project at largest homeless center in Westchester County. Project originated from after-school writing workshop that was ongoing from 1990 to
2003. Other elements included art workshops in metal sculpture, photography, dance and singing; computer lab for literacy skills development; reading
lab; pre-school educational enrichment; and development of scholarship program.

1983-1989

Founder and Director, Sleepy Hollow Poetry Series, Tarrytown, New York. Created reading series at the Warner Library. Responsible for fundraising,
setting up and administrating reading series in which approximately twenty four writers presented their work each year. From the beginning of the
series, the emphasis was on providing a forum to represent the diversity of poets and writers in America with entire year-long celebrations of Native
American, African American, and women writers.

Numerous public readings, both live and recorded and rebroadcast on radio from 1969 to the present, including “Poet and the Poem” with Grace Cavaliari, several appearances on Westchester TV Channel 12, Martha Stewart Living Radio.

Poem displayed with photographic art in Lynn Butler’s, Preservation of Historic Landscapeand Landmarks, at Nikon House, New York, N.Y.,
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, and many other museums from 1992 to 1996.

Photograph published as book jacket cover of Relearning the Alphabet by Denise Levertov, New Directions, 1972.

Photographs published in The Movement Towards a New America,
edited by Mitchell Goodman, Pilgrim Press, 1970.

Photographs published in numerous journals and magazines; Numerous photographs published in The Harvard Advocate and other periodicals.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/ACTIVITIES

Academy of American Poets; Poetry Society of America; Print Club of New York.